Jonathan Swift - Company Quotes

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I value not your bill of fare, give me your bill of company.

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Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

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Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.

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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid…

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Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

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Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

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